Gazing into stratosphere Mother Superior silently hands missive to superheroine Virtue. "Sounds like a barren wasteland." Virtue comments. "Where is this place?" Elder woman tells Virtue to read words more carefully. "America.. " superheroine finally deduces. "United States of America. I've heard of it. What happened to cause such grim decay in once fertile terrain?" Execrable story of greed, hubris, defilement unfolds. In summation Mother Superior informs Virtue: "We will install you at a North American Catholic academy. In civilian guise as teacher you must assess capability of younger generation to subvert tide of pestilence which threatens to destroy the very bedrock of their society.. "